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The Klotho Factor
Jan 03, 2026 39 min

The Klotho Factor

Kenzo Tanaka, a washed-up intellectual property rights enforcer turned PI, takes a “lost dog” case from a woman he believes to be a dazzling biotech heiress. However, he soon discovers that the d...

316 Builder of Monsters
Dec 02, 2025 37 min

316 Builder of Monsters

In exchange for the chance to reunite with his family, roboticist Sebit Deng has spent years on an isolated island in the South Pacific, building an android clone for aging industrialist Gregory V...

Senescence (Part 2)
Nov 03, 2025 23 min

Senescence (Part 2)

When Surya, a hardware engineer, buys an old NASA computer at a garage sale, she uncovers lost Voyager 2 data. She tracks down a retired scientist named in the file, who claims the data indicates ...

Senescence (Part 1)
Oct 03, 2025 37 min

Senescence (Part 1)

Surya, a tech historian, buys an old Sun workstation at a garage sale, expecting a working example of a CPU her grandmother designed, not secrets. Accidentally left on the drive are two files of N...

Solitude of the Deep Dark
Sep 04, 2025 34 min

Solitude of the Deep Dark

During a dive to repair a submersible mining robot, Rohan, a deep-sea specialist, discovers the true cause of the machine’s malfunction: the metallic nodules it was harvesting are alive, ancient, ...

From Wonder Valley to Nowhere
Aug 04, 2025 36 min

From Wonder Valley to Nowhere

Forced into Wonder Valley, a holding facility for seniors needing care, 83-year-old Ellie resists her cheerful AI handlers and their synthetic paradise. She finds solace in the company of Aura, an...

Anima Incognita
Jul 03, 2025 34 min

Anima Incognita

After living off-grid for forty years, Shane is drawn back into society when his former best friend—now the political leader of the territory—announces plans to develop the wilderness area that Sh...

No I in AI
Jun 13, 2025 8 min

No I in AI

Salvini, an out-of-work programmer, uses a hidden backdoor in her former employer’s system to create an AI called Bandhu, which hunts for jobs and outsmarts the hiring platforms. She asks it to fi...

Utopia Base
Jun 02, 2025 35 min

Utopia Base

Faraday and Quinn arrive at a remote mining site on the far side of the moon that supplies helium-3 to Utopia Base, where they have lived their entire lives believing the Earth has been devastated...

Personal Detritus
May 04, 2025 35 min

Personal Detritus

Liam, a laid-off tech worker turned scavenger, lives a double life—by day, a conscripted worker in a waste recycling plant; by night, Rupert Hudson, a venture capitalist, mingling with the elite u...

Scissors Paper Rock  App Computer
Apr 01, 2025 30 min

Scissors Paper Rock App Computer

At 75, Kaber Grewal should be retired in the sun, not taking gigs to pay for his hip replacement. Hired by a mysterious client to analyze communications, he uncovers signs of cognitive decline in ...

A New Star in Aries
Mar 04, 2025 29 min

A New Star in Aries

Professor Hollis Cooper, an underground scientist, must pass a daily test to prove her belief in the official facts. But she comes under investigation when she accidentally slips up in a lecture. ...

Floor Forty-two
Feb 06, 2025 32 min

Floor Forty-two

During a routine license audit at a vertical farm, Carmen, a demoted field agent, discovers that the farmhands, including a man named Salvador, are genetically modified and memory-altered slaves. ...

The Forever Worm
Jan 18, 2025 22 min

The Forever Worm

After a long shift ice mining in Saturn’s rings, Pascoe heads for a drink and the company of fresh faces at the Methane Bar on Titan. When he arrives, the bar is deserted except for Allgera, a rec...

Reality Adjustment (Part 2)
Jan 04, 2025 26 min

Reality Adjustment (Part 2)

Nickie and her cousin Noah stumble upon a mystery as they plan an adjustment for the Primate Council; someone appears to be following them. The mysterious person turns out to be a childhood friend...

Reality Adjustment (Part 1)
Dec 17, 2024 20 min

Reality Adjustment (Part 1)

Nickie Holmes is the best Adjuster in the business, erasing anomalies to align the physical world with the Primate Council’s official digital record. After a Forget injection wipes her memory of t...

Return of the Sovereign
Dec 03, 2024

Return of the Sovereign

After a century on Mars, crypto-trillionaire Devon Smit decides to return to Earth. He wants to be a god among the human masses, which he and his fellow elite left behind, to escape society’s down...

An Alien Mind
Nov 18, 2024 27 min

An Alien Mind

When Dr. Veda Singh arrives at a mining camp to fix the mysterious loss of communications with an AI studying a 12,000-year-old Aspen colony, malfunctioning automated mining machinery and unexplai...

Escape Across the 60th
Nov 04, 2024

Escape Across the 60th

Dr. Tremblay, a geneticist, is forced to run after attempting to give away his Alzheimer’s cure against his employer’s wishes. To evade the private security company sent to stop him, he fights for...

Manufactured Memory
Oct 17, 2024 29 min

Manufactured Memory

Ivan Petrenko has spent his entire life chasing one goal: proving his family’s abduction by extraterrestrials during a 1960 camping trip. When he is contacted by Marie, the daughter of a former re...